Maps and Mapping Exam 1 |31 Questions
with Accurate Answers
Transformative View - -Map readers cannot understand if map isn't simple
- Cognitive view - -Teach map reading, don't simplify maps
- Qualitative - -Perceptions, based on names, or nonnumeric
characteristics
- Quantitative - -Perceptions or facts based on
numeric measurements
- Scale - -Relationship between the length of a
feature on a map versus the length of that
feature on the ground
- Representative Fraction - -1:24,000
No units required
- Verbal Scale - -1 inch to 5 miles
Scale is described with appropriate units
for the map and earth
- Graphic Scale - -Bar scale or Variable scale. Draws the map unit on the
map and do not state it
- Nominal - -Have names only: qualitative
differences are recognized only
- Voter registration by party
- Soils
- Land cover
- Ordinal - -The lowest level of quantitative data in that they give implied
rank
- high, medium, low
- near, far
- more, less
- strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree
- Interval - -Uses numbers and amount of
difference between numbers, but have no "0" that
is meaningful
- Dates
with Accurate Answers
Transformative View - -Map readers cannot understand if map isn't simple
- Cognitive view - -Teach map reading, don't simplify maps
- Qualitative - -Perceptions, based on names, or nonnumeric
characteristics
- Quantitative - -Perceptions or facts based on
numeric measurements
- Scale - -Relationship between the length of a
feature on a map versus the length of that
feature on the ground
- Representative Fraction - -1:24,000
No units required
- Verbal Scale - -1 inch to 5 miles
Scale is described with appropriate units
for the map and earth
- Graphic Scale - -Bar scale or Variable scale. Draws the map unit on the
map and do not state it
- Nominal - -Have names only: qualitative
differences are recognized only
- Voter registration by party
- Soils
- Land cover
- Ordinal - -The lowest level of quantitative data in that they give implied
rank
- high, medium, low
- near, far
- more, less
- strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree
- Interval - -Uses numbers and amount of
difference between numbers, but have no "0" that
is meaningful
- Dates
